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The Power of Proto Boards!

Oxide and Friends

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How to Build a Gemini Server From Scratch

When you're building a server from scratch, you don't really want to go straight to building the whole server motherboard. Instead of being tightly integrated, they're all spread out over a bench with nasty cables between them so that you can probe them and replace them as needed. So, I think of building these little modules like it's sort of the hardware equivalent of unit testing. You want to write little things and see if they work in isolation. And then if they don't, you throw them away and you make a new one until you've got a library of useful things.

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